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Topic: Find Symbol - Exact (Read 1084 times)

In FindSymbol the default is prefix matching.So, if I type "max" in SearchFor, it finds tons of stuff from lots of system headers.If I really only want to find max, as in a function called "max()", or a macro called max, it is a pain.I can turn on RE matching and type "^max$", but I'm just too lazy - and that makes the matching *much* slower.

I assume that when "Match substring" is off, then the results should be the same as matching with RE and prefixing with ^, right?

Exact matching doesn't even need to have a checkbox, just sort the results differently --- put exact matches first.

Interesting, I've never been able to make much sense of LookIn: Its really confusing (due to the available options, and the behaviors of those options, lack of documentation, and whatever else its behavior is conditional upon).

While exactly "::max" works as you say, "::" in general does *not* work correctly (or at least not reasonably).